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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Compare bash arrays issue Post 303038704 by trexthurman on Wednesday 11th of September 2019 07:31:54 PM
Old 09-11-2019
Compare bash arrays issue

Hello everyone,
I need help comparing 2 arrays. the first array is static; the second array is not ..

Code:
array1=( "macOS Mojave" "iTunes" )
cd /Volumes
array2=( * )

# output of array2
Code:
macOS Mojave
iTunes
Mac me

The problem occurs when I compare the arrays with the following code -

Code:
 DIFF=`echo "${array1[@]}" "${array2[@]}" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -u`

for x in "${DIFF[@]}"
        do
                echo -e "$x"
        done

# wrong result
Code:
Mac
me

# desired result
Code:
Mac me

I'm sending the output via email and it still splits up "Mac" "me" on separate lines. How could I keep the DIFF array intact? Not separating the words when I do the compare?

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-12-2019 at 12:16 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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ARRAY_DIFF_KEY(3)							 1							 ARRAY_DIFF_KEY(3)

array_diff_key - Computes the difference of arrays using keys for comparison

SYNOPSIS
array array_diff_key (array $array1, array $array2, [array $...]) DESCRIPTION
Compares the keys from $array1 against the keys from $array2 and returns the difference. This function is like array_diff(3) except the comparison is done on the keys instead of the values. PARAMETERS
o $array1 - The array to compare from o $array2 - An array to compare against o $... - More arrays to compare against RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing all the entries from $array1 whose keys are not present in any of the other arrays. EXAMPLES
Example #1 array_diff_key(3) example The two keys from the key => value pairs are considered equal only if (string) $key1 === (string) $key2 . In other words a strict type check is executed so the string representation must be the same. <?php $array1 = array('blue' => 1, 'red' => 2, 'green' => 3, 'purple' => 4); $array2 = array('green' => 5, 'blue' => 6, 'yellow' => 7, 'cyan' => 8); var_dump(array_diff_key($array1, $array2)); ?> The above example will output: array(2) { ["red"]=> int(2) ["purple"]=> int(4) } NOTES
Note This function only checks one dimension of a n-dimensional array. Of course you can check deeper dimensions by using array_diff_key($array1[0], $array2[0]);. SEE ALSO
array_diff(3), array_udiff(3), array_diff_assoc(3), array_diff_uassoc(3), array_udiff_assoc(3), array_udiff_uassoc(3), array_diff_ukey(3), array_intersect(3), array_intersect_assoc(3), array_intersect_uassoc(3), array_intersect_key(3), array_intersect_ukey(3). PHP Documentation Group ARRAY_DIFF_KEY(3)
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